NEW YORK — A surprisingly weak retail sales report drove stocks lower Tuesday, giving the Dow Jones industrial average its second straight day of losses.

The Commerce Department said that retail sales rose just 0.3 percent in January, the smallest increase since June and half of what economists had predicted.

Energy companies led the way down. Exxon Mobil Corp. lost 2.3 percent, the largest drop among the 30 large companies that make up the Dow. Exxon Mobil said it added 3.5 billion barrels of oil and gas last year to the company’s massive reserves, more than twice what Exxon produced in 2010.

The Dow fell 41.55, or 0.3 percent, to close at 12,226.64. That’s only the third day this month the Dow has closed lower.

Limelight Networks Inc. jumped 27 percent after the provider of streaming video services narrowed its fourth-quarter loss and issued a better-than-expected forecast for the current quarter. The company is benefiting from consumers turning to the Internet to watch TV and movies; one of its customers is online video company Netflix Inc.

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